POLICE are hunting two men who fled after a speeding car smashed into a garden wall and burst into flames, leaving two people dead and a third fighting for their life in hospital.

Horrified eyewitnesses snapped the sickening scene as the Renault Megane was engulfed in a fireball, with two people reportedly still trapped inside the wreckage.

The car demolished the front garden of the detached house in Branton, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire just before 1pm today.

South Yorkshire Police said five people were in the car. Two people were found dead inside the wreckage, one was treated at the scene for serious injuries and the other two fled.

A spokesman said: "Police believe that the two other occupants of the car who remain unaccounted for are also seriously injured."

At the time of the incident, photographs also emerged of a third person - who is thought to have been in the vehicle - standing shirtless by the roadside with his arms covered in burn injuries.

Bystanders described how the car ignited after slewing off the road and slamming into the side of a house, and said they could hear the "boom" noise of the tyres exploding as the flames took hold.

Some claimed that the car had been speeding and was being driver erratically in the moments before its driver seemingly lost control. Eye-witnesses also reported that some of the occupants of the car may have escaped the wreckage and fled the scene, despite being badly injuries.

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This is the moment the car slammed into the house and burst into flames

Michael Burton described how his girlfriend was in the house when the car smashed through the front wall of his garden and burst into flames.

He said the rockery in front of the house probably stopped the vehicle smashing into the house itself and setting the building on fire with his girlfriend inside.

The 21-year-old said his parents, who own the detached house, are on holiday in Tenerife.

Mr Burton said: "From what I heard, she (his girlfriend) actually saw the driver get out of the car, burning alive. He ran across the road to the lady across the road and she did a sterling job to help the guy.

"If it wasn't for her, he would have been another fatality."

Speaking in front of his wrecked front garden, Mr Burton described how he heard something as he was working at a nearby garden centre and thought it was a lorry that had clipped the kerb and toppled over.

He said he went to investigate, adding: "I looked at my colleague, Dave, and just said: 'My garden's on fire'.

"We both ran up the road as quick as we could.

"My first thought was my girlfriend - is she alright, is she out of the house?"

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A young man, thought to have been in the car, was pictured with burn injuries on his arms

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The scene of the fatal crash

It rolled straight into the front garden in flames. There were plumes of smoke

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He said: "There was the wall all over the floor and there was a car - a Renault Megane - upside down and on fire."

Mr Burton said: "It seems that it has lost control a high speed, it's gone through the bollard a bit further down the road and it's gone through my wall.

"Luckily, we had a rockery in the garden because, if that rockery hadn't been there, I've got a feeling that the car would have gone through the front of the house.

"If that had happened the car would have been on fire and the house would have gone up in flames. My girlfriend was in there at the same time."

Mr Burton, who said there is a speeding problem on the road, added: "My heart goes out to the families. It's tragic, such a real shame."

Neighbour Tracey Jackson and her husband Paul described the moment they were overtaken by the car involved just before it crashed.

Tracey said: "We were coming home from work when we were overtaken by this erratic driver who was weaving in and out of the road and overtaking cars into oncoming traffic.

"My husband was really angry because it nearly caused us to crash and the five of them in the car were swearing at my husband as they past us.

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Michael Burton looks at his parents house at the scene of a fatal car crash

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Witnesses described how they heard the tyres burst as the flames took hold

"Next thing we saw a massive plume of smoke come up before we turned the corner and realised that the car had hit a bollard in the middle of the road, lost control and crashed into the side of this house.

"The driver got out of the car and was on fire - he was bleeding on his back and came shouting that he was going to get scars.

"Two other people got out of the car and fled but they looked badly injured and one of them had a very severe injury on his leg.

"We don't know what happened to them, they just ran away.

"All five of them looked like they were in their 20s."

Tracey, who stayed at the scene for over an hour, said that there was one person in the house at the time of the crash who could not get out.

She said: "The young boy who lives in the house was only 21 and his parents are on holiday. He was outside but his girlfriend was in the house and she couldn't get out for a while.

"She looked like she was in shock."

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Police and firefighters were called to the deadly crash at just before 1pm today

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Eyewitnesses described how two people were trapped inside the burning wreckage

An eyewitness who saw the drama unfold said a passing nurse bravely tried to help the people trapped inside the wreckage.

She told the Doncaster Free Press: “It was unbelievable. The car was in flames and rolled straight into the house on the corner.

"It rolled straight into the front garden in flames. There were plumes of smoke."

It is thought the impact of the car hitting the house was so severe that the building has been left structurally unstable.

An air ambulance was scrambled to the scene in Branton, Doncaster, following the horrific collision.

Officers closed off the road whilst firefighters battled to bring the infer ripping through the burning wreckage under control.